Radiator

2014

UK

1h 33min

15

Directed by: Tom Browne

Cast: Daniel Cerqueira, Richard Johnson, Gemma Jones

Language: English/French

UK release: 27 November 2015

Leonard (Johnson) and his wife Maria (Jones) have spent 40 years in their Cumbrian cottage which now contains the junk of a lifetime. Their son Daniel (Cerqueira) arrives determined to sort things out. Acutely observed and deeply felt indie filmmaking; the late Johnson's last ever performance is magnificent, and debut director Browne brings out the best in the whole cast.

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The late Richard Johnson is magnificent in Tom Browne’s life-affirming debut

Radiator is the kind of acutely observed, deeply felt low-budget venture that sustains your faith in independent British filmmaking. Writer-director Tom Browne has taken a deeply personal story and rendered it with a sense of truth and humanity that…

Acting since he was 16-years old and having enjoyed a storied career interrupted just once by wartime national service, Richard Johnson has seen it all and then some. A founding member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Johnson's movie credits included…